Dress-supporting pin.



No. 736,126. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903. Y

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DRESSSUPPORI'ING PIN. APPLICATION II LED MAY 7, 1903.

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BY WTTORNEYS I UNITED. STATES I Patented August 11, 1903.

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DRESS-SUPPORTING PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,126, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed May 7,1903. Serial No. 155,966. (No model.)

i To all whom it may concern:

skilled in the art to which it. appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of reference marked'thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

The more particular object of this invention is to fasten a ladys skirt to the Waist portion of her garment more conveniently and at the same time to hold the belt in place, where said skirt and Waist come together, to cover the joint,and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved dress-supporting pin andin the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim. .7

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which likecharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 is an elevation showing portions of a waist and skirt joined by niy improved fastener or supporting-pin. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the fastener or support from the reverse side from what is shown in Fig. 1.

In said drawings, a indicates a portion of a ladys waist or upper garment, b a portion of a skirt or lower garment, and c a belt (shown in outline) adapted to cover the joint (Z where the garments unite or overlap.

3 indicates the supporting-pin, comprising two pieces of wire 4. and 5, of which the wire 4 is bowed centrally downward, as at 6. At opposite ends of the bow said wire is bent backward and downward, as at 7 7, to overlie the edge ofthe belt, vertical bars 8 8 an books 10 10, the hooks 10 being connected and lying a little distance apart. At the tops of the hooks the wire is bent downward or is doubled, so that it lies at 11 11 parallel with vertical bars 8, extending about half-way up the length of said vertical bars, and there being bent horizontally or perpendicular to the bars 8, the ends 13 13 0t the-wire extending in alinement toward one another. The second wire 5 lies parallel with the alined ends 13 and is reinforced by the same, being united thereto by solder or by an inclosing piece 14, of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 3.

At one extremity of the wire 4 the same is bent, as at 15, into the form of a hook to receive the pointed end of the pin extension 10 at the opposite end of said wire.

The pin extension 16 lies a little back and away from but approximately parallel with the ends 1313, to which the body portion of said wire 4 is rigidly attached, and thus the device can be conveniently pinned to the waist, and the hooks 1O 10 will extend downward to eyes or rings 17, sewed or otherwise formed on the belt-band e or other portion of the skirt, so that the latter will be supported by said books. The parts being applied as described, the belt a may be arranged in place over the joint d and beneath the bow 6,80 as to be held by said bow from riding up andlaway from the joint to expose the same. Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The improved skirt-support combining two rigidly-joined wires, one of which is cen- 2. The improved skirtsupport combining two rigidly-joined wires one of which is centrally bowed and bent to overlie the'upper edge of a belt and atthe opposite ends of the bow extending downward and then being bent upward to form hooks, the wire being further turned or extended horizontallyfrom the central parts of the downward extensions, and

the other of said wires being rigidly fastened to said horizontally-turned ends and having a hook at one end and a pin extension at the other, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved skirt-supporting device combining therein a wire bent to form a hook to overlie the upper edge of a'belt and at the opposite ends of said hook bent downward and then upward and forming two hooks to 10 engage eyes formed in the skirt, and a pin 

